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The traveler who funded her journey by selling insects
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You think backpacking on a budget is tough, try being a middle-aged Austrian woman in 1842 financing her trip around the world by literally hunting exotic insects. Traveling solo on an absolute shoestring budget, Ida Pfeiffer survived pirates, cannibals, and sheer starvation by collecting rare biological specimens to sell to European museums upon her return.
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